S2 Ep4: Always on: Delainey Hayles - Inside Interview with the Vampire & the World of Women in Horror

Okay, so starting with the film that you picked for us to watch, The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun came out in 1999.

Why did you pick this film in particular for

us? I picked this film because I thought it was stunning.

I hadn't heard of the director before and I hadn't been familiar with Senegalese cinema and I was missing out on a lot.

The colors used in this film are stunning.

I think the story is gorgeous as well.

Even in today's society, I don't think I've seen a story like that represented where a person of color has a disability and it not be like debilitating or like a sad story.

It's like, no, okay, you view me as different, but my life continues and I'm going to do this thing and I'm going to be amazing at it.

The film kind of touches on gender inequality and this little girl takes it upon herself to decide that she's gonna sell newspapers and be the greatest to ever do it and yeah we like follow her on her journey to selling newspapers and kind of the hardships that come along with that but the hardships that we view as hardships not that she views as hardships and I think that's really gorgeous to go into.

Yeah, it's a very visually striking film.

You know, I think it's like you said, it's like an aspect you don't really see that much.

The director is, I think he sadly died a year before it came out.

And there's like a quote.

Yeah, the quote is, this tale is thrown into the ocean.

The first to breathe it will go to heaven.

So the first to watch it continue the message will go to heaven.

You'll be blessed, basically.

And I thought, well, just how poetic.

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and the main character silly i like did a i found her on facebook

did you oh my god yes she's

like stunning grown woman now and i'm like wow that kind of made me a bit emotional yeah i'm like watching her her and her little crutches and her little pink dress and her yellow dresses still so like hyper feminine in a job that's considered something that only boys do yeah i It was just good message.

I didn't think, of